HealthTech March 22, 2024
Healthcare organizations can tackle BCDR through stress testing and cloud backup to prepare for disasters while maintaining continuity of operations.
Epic and Microsoft Azure: How to Ensure a Successful Cloud Migration
“It’s a cascading effect, and that is a large hit to the bottom line for hospitals running on razor-thin margins,” he says.
Even if healthcare organizations have not migrated their operations fully to the cloud, business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) is one area where the cloud can help.
For example, the Microsoft Azure cloud platform allowed Mount Sinai Health System to be better prepared for outage recovery through cloud-based geographic diversity and failover features. Meanwhile, Cook Children’s Health Care System in Fort Worth, Texas, migrated its electronic health...